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IVAL-OF-BIRITAIN-Jast conference at Chalqum,

ad if head. Moritsan- thang thon

`a'loved its courley"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL · 1950. -

The FLOGGING LEAGUE decided unanim

Unless the Royal Commission winchen –

atirist flogging as a defervient to crime, it sa

be flagged until it

changed its mind.

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The Beaverbrook Conference

proposed that Britain be lugged over to Jamaica and

Europe be ignored.

(LOUD CHEERS),

The PEACEFUL WATCHDOGS Conference said

we should show our confidence in The aggressor

not only by banning The Atam bomb but by giving it to him.

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CAN YOU SUCCEED

20

NO-there's more

time in hand to

do better still

SUCCEED

CAN SUCCESS come too soon? When the garland of early glory withers-chat then? Remember the tragic words of A. E. Housman

And early though #the laurel grows,

It withers quicker than the raze.... Runners tehom renoua outran.

And the name died before the man... Here, three people to whom success has come early iquore his and cynicism and look forward to the challenge of the arriving ucars.

VER

since Evelyn Waugh went down from Oxford to reap a rich and carly harvest as a brillant satirist, undergraduates have tried desperately to emulate his example, to become legends while still alive.

I know of only

on o who

hay carried this dream into reality in his OWN

His

22

TOO

Union of

ENLIGHTENED!

TOMERS Conference

held on the Inflationary S

ry Spiral.

MOTION. THST higher i

| wages be demanded now, because some chumpst keep driving, up the cost of living......proceedingen,

TOO YOUNG?

NO-Urgency is the key all-so I hurry

KEN TYNAN-22

It IS a

1

20 it

26

STIRLING MOSS-20

a risk

-but worth it

post-war generation. name: KENNETH

PEACOCK TYNAN,

"Nowadays if anyone tries

to go after something he wants young be. becomes A An ex-secretary of the target for criticism. Oxford Union, he is the isn't the age of the common only man in its history to man.

This

NO-it makes

you much more careful later on

EMMA SMITH-26

And tia name is the Scriptochronograph

Prof. Katz and I test the Writing Machine

THE

CHAPMAN

PINCHER

COLUMN

-F it takes you

four German graphologist Chand- seconds to write your SEICHTER is therefore using writing expert) HERMANN normal signature, how the scriplochronograph to study. long will it take

you to the handwriting of criminals, write it Ave times binger? nurotles, and other interesting The answer, according to charneters. Stockholm University psy lines of writing signed~~-

Il professional opinion of ten chologist Professor DAVID

KATZ, is that you

will

write both signatures in

exactly the same--time,

Chapman Purich

Your hand and mind adjust "The script of an intelligent themselves to the change with buy over-ambitious inan who such astonishing precision that dissipates his energy trying to the total time of writing, does know too much." not alter.

Kaiz discovered this by means of an ingenious machine called the scriptochronograph, which he

has devised for the scientifle

study of handwelling.

A szel-polated pen, linked electrically with a timing device, records exactly how long you take to write cach letter-even to the dotting of an

"

As the professor proved to me during tests with the machine in his laboratory, if you deliberately write very fast or very slow the Thythm of your writing remains unchanged.

Example: The percentage of the time you spend doing the when wetting the word London as the same, whether you write the word in five acconds or 50.

Just to put the handwriting of a handwriting expert an the record here is Seichter's sigma- tur::-

the Verneame

am Seichtery

And a almature he begged me to send him for his murderers' file:-

Jobin Haigh

BIRD TRAGEDY

TWO Teat-tits built a nest vertical flue pipe in my garden at the bottom of 1 six-fout last year. There are no claw- These discoveries are of the So the birds had to do a hell- holds in the pipe's smooth lining. greatest importance to the study conter take-off and landing on of how the brain works. They each of the thousands of suggest that the mind visualises Cat

of insect- "I don't think success can words

hunting entities, not as strings their

trips they made to feed come too young in motor rac-ot separate letters. For more

voracious youngsters. Ing. You see,

Towards always practical purposes, Katz and his nursing period the parents were you're

the end of the 20-day Jearning. You never know it all. assistants are using the scripto almost exhausted. We could hear chronograph in three Investiga them half-clawing, half-flutter- Ing their way almost to the top

try again.

"Bealdes, I'm young now, Ilous:

215

want to give it, say, three years To discover how mental il- of the pipe, only to fall back and

mints affect the speed of writing. the

a told, Then, if I don't make

ul, if I'm just a flash in

ler.

+

Then a thunderstorm broke. After it we could hear no more eher pings inside the pipe.

from her own experiences, I'll quit I'll still be é altudy "writer's cramp,"

young enough then, anyhow, to her personal reactions. elart in and have a try at some-2 To test whether writing

To my wife It seemed pitiful thing else. Early suceess makes speed is linked with charac- that the family should bo During the War she you careful. The higher up you

drowned after the terride effort worked as a bargee with

are the further you have to Reputable Esychoingists admit the parents had made. To me 0211 the fall. See what I mean?...." My dear chap, it's two other girls

that the interpretation of hand the choler of such an impossible Grand Union Canal, wrote of WHAT is it these three

writing is wide open to chicanery, nesting site was just another young but most of them bettave It is demonstration that nature comes Living her adventures. People liked

successful people have worth serion study.

tines makes bad mistakes, learned?

Handwriting is really brain I cleaned out the pipe recently SUCCESS is a heady, racy, in-writing, they argue. So it to forestall a further tragedy

toxicating

character thing. And as in Person's

deduced front his the pursuit of happiness, one is never quite sure of it.

should certainly be This script, which -(London Express Service) Resture."

be asked to speak in four the age of the dwarf. consecutive Eights Week de-

"I like ergcacy, butun. These are famous for is an urgent thing. Success her style, asked for more.

their wit and levity: other is no good next year. We speakers, Mr. Ronald may not be here then. Let's a Knox,

Charles

Gillie Potter.

Morgan, have it nom...."

THE AUTHOR

Down from Oxford 15 months ago, he went

to

Paris, produced "San- IN a little Essex cottage a

Then she went to India with documentary fu company, used her knowledge of the country, her own memories of Centre-

childhood, her intense

ness of fecting to build up # tremeucous novel about a lonely

Far

little girl who went to India. SOR Agonistes," "Winter- pretty blonde girl with "Maiden's Trip," "The set." "Meilen" for the long ear-rings faces a tricky Cry" Now it is the third Comedie des Champ- problem.

Elysees.

She is EMMA SMITH, at

Then he returned to 26 author of two books, and

drama, out

this summer. this year

He is under con- træet for another book. Ilo has produced Roger Livesey in "Citizen of the World," at the Lyric, Hammer- smith.

by

JAMES

LEASOR

Line of asking. Can she do it again?......

THE MOTORIST

UNDER the dripping sky, the

racing

-and

SATURDAY NIGHT

Can

be this year. Careful examination Restures, it of the nest revealed only one revealed by small situll. The rest of the is crystallist brood had somehow bien safely

ferried out after all.

AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE

Story without

comment

by BILLY ROSE

let a hearse and ceveral carriages pass.

HURRICANE NEWS ★ A

.American

WARTIME

claim that super-hurricanes with speeds up to 200 miles an hour rage just below the strato- sphere, seven miles up, has been confirmed by meteorologists.

I-dying balloons, tracked by rudur, have proved that the hurricanes are narrow Jets of air which sometimes

travel half aerons the world before petering out

Puzzle now to discover what cause the Jets and how they

WING BEAT

THOSE mole-sized midges which the warmer days are bringing out beat their wings more than 1,000 times a second, He calculates that only a rhythm according to Dr O. SOTAVALTA.

of that tempo could account for the particular tone of the hum their wings generate.

England for 28 weeks, pro- winner of three top-line duced a play a week for a terary prizes the John repertory company.

Llewelyn Rhys Memorial

white concrete track shim- Orson Welles has written Prize, the 1,000 Dollar miera like n river. Canvas a preface to his book on Atlantic Award and now pusters flap in the rain. The

she becomes the throaty exhausts of the

cars, track like calico tearing THIS morning I got an intersection in lower Quebee affect the weather down below. youngest woman

story from a young lady to ever to win the The CHTS slan clown the James Tait Black straight, accelerate into the first in Canada which I'd like to

It was a white, horse-drawn bed and are away. Behind pass on without comment. vehicle with a Memorial Prize.

good deut of them, only a thlu smell of hot Two weeks ago she and rerollwork, and through the Her problem: rubber and rain remains. To write a third

her fiance were strolling glass sides they could see what That was the scene at Good through a narrow street in on the back of the hearse was was obviously a child's coffin. book thut will wood, where 20-year-old STIR.

they the name "Adele" in gold topple the criti- LING CRAUFORD MOSS drove lower Quebee when cal shots from the lockers of two-litre HIWM-and was noticed they were being letters. Next month, he flies to the doubters who says: "It's second in his race.

followed by a child of about The driver mentioned that he Salzburg to produce a play just luck, old boy.

For him it was an important four. When they asked the knew the parents of the child. She day. It was the first time hc there, returns to put on can't do it three times run- hod

little girl her name, she said and that her death hadn't been★ HOW does a steeplechasing raced unything more "Macbeth" in London, to ning."

racehorse compare with an powerful than a one-litre

it was Monique and that unexpected,

The youngster had had tuber- Olymple athlete for long jump- produce a Picasso play.

And with one-litre (1,000 cc.) she lived close by.

culosis and

the parents

hading? Not so well as you would Her problem is not made and halt-litre "midget" racers

The child was wearing

been saving for a "nice funeral," think, according to Itoyal Society easier by the knowledge he has carved out a career for

patched-up coat and cheap but unfortunately they hadn't physiologist Professor ARCHI- himself umong the giants nt that she is the only one who

print dress, and, acting

on been able to save much because BALD VIVIAN IIILL. speed, No one can help herself.

The horse's maximum long In the last two years he has impulse, the couple took her to she had died six months sooner

a near-by shop and ordered than the doctor predicted, jump seems to be 251t., compared else can.

won 50 of the 54 races he en complote outfit for her-hand- "Well, then," said the young with the human

an record of 2011. tered. He has raced in Switzer-embroidered dress, pink under- land, in Italy, in Holland.

Even that astounding jumper slip, silk socks, large hair rib-man, how are they going to 8ins., says Hull

for this expensive funeral?" is by years Britain's youngest bon, patent leather shoes and on They will pay for it some-the kangaree covers no more successful professional racing absurd little handbag.

how,"

"sald the driver. "Rich or ground per bound than a top- poor, a man doesn't bury his fight athicle. child like a pauper. Somehow. WARMING UP they will find a way-

Tyuan is 22. Can he keep on?

Tall mop-haired, grey corduroy tie, the only sign of earlier dress affectations (at Oxford he wore a golden She is doing this in soli- shirt, n green suit), he tude, shut away in her coun- eleaves the air with his try cottage. hands in his St John's Wood flat to give emphasis to his philosophy:

"You can't have success

*

*

22

Shy, modest about her her hopes, she

driver.

car,

SUC-

Can he keep on being

biser stun?

nue, however, was a bit diflealt Moss is simply built, -keen on she was smaller than the jiu-jitsu, favours easy, sporty average

four-year-old; yet a clothes, speaks casually of his No. 3 was too tight.

Dut tre saleslady told them

cessful DOW he drives the Getting a dress to ft Moril

too early. Saccess to me success, means enough money to live gives this opinion on early career,"

on for two years so I needn't success:→→ bother about being success- ful...

"If success

nd waited

the

MAN v. HORSE

retreating northwards for

05

30

A

★ PROFESSOR HANS AHL- MANN, the Swedish selenslat whose revolutionary theory that "For example," he went on, the world has been getting "only Inst wesk Adele's maman warmer is now regarded "I sold n sports car to buy not

told my cousin that if her proved, is just back from a trip to worry-Monique's ma my firal Cooper 500 cc. racing man could easily take in the daughter were to die suddenly, to Lapland's glaciers. "I don't think a writer Job, No

look me опе

very waist an Inch on each side and thing in which to lay out the glaciers which have been slowly wouldn't have a decent. On his previous visit, the great who is any good is

ever seriously. I

was only 18, you make it at price gave the body Tuesday just a few hours years had suddenly stopped. neo, but I wanted to become a

In parting any longer. I shouldn't have satisfied with what he pros full-time racing driver.

Pair been ready for it. A para duces. One always tries to "I won by first race. Just a note is herox of candy with before the good Lord took the now advance of the ice and an dox? No, I want it young polish,

prune and luck, people said. So I did my that the clothes were gifts from younger sister, came home with likely.

Monique, away,

the end to the hotting-up looked I work on the assumption

you know. So an best and won some moro. I've two people who had fallen in

made enough out of prizes and love with

n box. of beautiful clothes that But the latest measurements that I'll be dead at 80, That early success only makes starting money and so on

her daughter, and

come strangers had to wanted her to have a new out notion to give her..

taken a show that the check was tem- gives me eight more years you more careful."

buy a lorry. to transport my for church.

porary. The lee Man is on the "And-Instead of fitting Moni-move again, Ahimann tolla mo

----{Landós - Express- Barotos)

botter, to

little girl a

chlid

to do all the things I want How did she score her And I have my own mechanic were on their way to a ski run

car about from race to race. Two days later the couple que-they were exactly Adele's and all retreating.

to,

great success? She wrote now, too,

Bize."

when their taxi was held up at ***

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